Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that dinky pistol carried by General George Marshall on his visit to the Normandy beachhead is a Service model .45-caliber automatic, then my bazooka is a popgun...
Just before heading for Manhattan, General de Gaulle, giving the first real smile of his visit, held a press conference...
Observant and curious, he pasted in a scrapbook every picture postcard that came to the Pyle house. And he had a solid respect for facts. As a schoolboy, assigned to write a composition about a visit to the county courthouse, he reported; "Many interesting statistics were brought out in the examination of the assessment sheets. It was found that Old Dobbin has completely succumbed to the invasion of the automobile. The total value of horses listed in the county is $297,096, while that of automobiles is $398,322. The average horse is worth a fraction less than...
...includes 13½ hours of U.S.-made AFRS transcriptions, 28½ hours of decommercialized U.S. network shows-flown in from the States. The rest is local material, ranging from the reading of war correspondence in the area to burlesques such as McGoo's Booze Hour ("Next time you visit your PX take home a handy family-size container of McGoo's Old Man in the convenient 60-gallon drum...
Henry Agard Wallace, who warmed up to his Chinese visit (TIME, July 3) by playing three fast games of volleyball with Superfortress airmen, and incidentally gave some pointers to teammate Captain Henry ("Hank") Greenberg, peacetime baseball star, later gave some pointers on the American way of living: "Some American has said that the Americans are fighting for the right to throw pop bottles at the umpire in Brooklyn. That's one way of looking at it. We're fighting for our way of life. That doesn't mean we are trying to make the rest...